Thursday, November 7 - 11:00 am to 12:15 pm
Presenters:
Ian Kerr-Wilson, Manager of Heritage Resource Management, City of Hamilton; Cathy Molloy, Director, Markham Museum, The City of Markham; Tom Reitz, Manager/Curator, Waterloo Region Museum, Region of Waterloo
Download the Tom Reitz presentation [ PDF 1.7mb ]
Download the Ian Kerr-Wilson presentation [ PDF 500kb ]
Download the Cathy Molloy presentation [ PDF 1.2mb ]
Ian Kerr-Wilson
Tom Reitz
Cathy Molloy
Session Description
Municipal museums work within the restrictions of their municipality’s policies, procedures and by-laws, and numerous pieces of provincial legislation. Learn how three municipally owned and operated museums have successfully navigated within their municipal structure to meet the museums’ desired outcomes.
Presenter Biographies
IAN KERR-WILSON
Manager of Museums and Heritage Presentation for the City of Hamilton
Ian Kerr-Wilson is the Manager of Museums and Heritage Presentation for the City of Hamilton, having worked in Hamilton’s municipal museum system in various curatorial and management positions since 1989. He has been the Curator of Hamilton Museum of Steam and Technology, the Hamilton Children’s Museum, Dundurn National Historic Site (which included the Hamilton Military Museum) and the Program Coordinator for the Hamilton and Scourge National Historic Site, an in situ marine archaeological site. Ian holds a Masters of Museum Studies from the University of Toronto, a M.A. (American History), a B.Ed. from Queen’s University, and a B.A. from Trent University.
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CATHY MOLLOY
Museum Director, City of Markham
Cathy Molloy has been the Director of Markham Museum since August 2008. She began her work career as an accountant at the head office of Peoples Jewellers in Toronto. In 1992 she started her curatorial career, holding positions at Oshawa and then Markham, Ontario. Her first major museum management project was in Aurora, where Church Street School was saved and transformed into a Cultural Centre in 2008. Cathy returned to Markham Museum as Director later that same year. Together with staff, the Friends foundation, stakeholders and the community, Markham Museum has been transformed into a dynamic community resource.
Cathy holds an honours degree in Near Eastern Archaeology from Wilfrid Laurier University and one year of Masters of Archaeology at Laurier in 1983/4. Cathy was a part time student at Seneca College from 1984 to 1988 taking accounting courses related to her work. Cathy started another Masters degree in Archaeology at University of Toronto in 1997, but work and family commitments have made finishing this degree a retirement dream!
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TOM REITZ
Manager/Curator, Waterloo Region Museum
Tom can be found on Facebook and LinkedIn – but not flickr, Twitter, Pinterest or YouTube. And he doesn’t write a blog. He is a graduate in Anthropology from the University of Waterloo and has an MA in Historical Administration from Eastern Illinois University. Tom was the museum’s project manager during the planning and construction of the Waterloo Region Curatorial Centre (1995) and the Waterloo Region Museum (2010).
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